When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.